Fountain Pen problems? Better ink might help

Problem: My fountain pen skips. 

Solution: Use better ink.

1.  Get a converter for your ink pen so you can use your own ink

2. Buy Noodler's blackest black waterproof ink (it's supposed to have the best inkflow)

3. Load up your pen with Noodler's ink.

4. Turn the dial on the converter to push some ink out of the nib (to clean it).


5. Wipe the nib off.


6. Optional:  Take the converter off and put it on again (it seems to help the air pressure inside the converter)



Details:

Some inks work well with some nibs and not with others. Here's a Lamy Safari with a medium tip and the Lamy ink that came with the pen. The ink is fine.

Here's the very same ink cartridge in a Lamy Safari with a broad tip. Notice that it has skipped in at least three places.

Here's the same pen and nib using Noodler ink.

Note: You can't just change the cartridge, you need to clean the nib by pushing the new ink through it. If the old and the new ink are mixing, you can still have problems.